It Can't Be Me!

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  • Battered Woman
    • Gertrude
    • shhhh! If you're quiet you will hear the sound of my heart breaking.

    It Can't Be Me!

     I look in the mirror
    I see a stranger looking back at me.

    It can't be me!
    The reflection
    is battered and bruised.

    Tears streaming down her face
    streaming from her black and blue eyes.
    The very eyes that once reflected the love
    she once seen in his eyes.

    Who is the woman looking back at me?
    In ways she looks like me,
    but how could that be?

    How did I go from
    cherrished and loved
    to battered and bruised?

    Did I do something wrong?

    Doesn't he love me anymore?

    Who is this woman reflecting back at me?

    It can't be me!


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    Artie commented on It Can't Be Me!

    06-15-2009

    Very powerful piece! Hopefully an eyeopener to some on just how much damage can come from a loss of control.
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    Gertrude

    08/28/2009

    Sorry it took so long to respond back. Thank you.

    ladydraeko commented on It Can't Be Me!

    06-03-2009

    ok friend you've done it again, read my life story have you??? I've been in the exact same situation so this poem hit me like a brick and I mean that as a compliment. DEEP!!!!! Hugs
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    Gertrude

    06/04/2009

    I appreciate your kind words. My writing is a big part of my healing process.

    A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

    Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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